prosperity in the 15th century. Attached to the kingdom of France after Louis XIV's conquest in 1667, and enlarged by Vauban, the town suffocated in the...

bordered to the west by Boulevard de la Liberté and to the south by Boulevard Louis XIV. During the First World War, the area around Rue de Béthune, the...

France's leading military figures, most notably the tomb of Napoleon. Louis XIV initiated the project by an order dated 24 November 1670 as a home and...

during the reign of Louis-Philippe, the middle class gradually moved away from the center toward the west and north of the Grands Boulevards. Between 1831 and...

Guérineau, 1887 Beaux Arts acroterion of the Collège Franklin (Boulevard Louis-XIV no. 5), Lille, France, unknown architect or sculptor, c.1900 Beaux Arts...

Palais-Royal. Due to the Parisian uprisings during the Fronde civil war, Louis XIV moved his court to a new palace, Versailles, in 1682. Although no longer...

boulevards from the Porte Saint-Honoré to Porte Saint-Antoine without authorization of the Bureau de la Ville. 1715 1 September – Death of Louis XIV....

inhabitants in 2018. With Lille and the towns of the former Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin, it is also part of the Metropolitan area of Lille [fr] which has more...

and Marseille (by Pierre Petitot), Bordeaux and Nantes (by Louis-Denis Caillouette), Lille and Strasbourg (by James Pradier). The statue of Strasbourg...

here in 1659. Madame de Sévigné relates in her memoirs that when King Louis XIV of France visited there in 1671, François Vatel, the maître d'hôtel to...

daughter of Louis XIV Princess Marie Anne of France (1664), daughter of Louis XIV Marie Thérèse of France (1667–1672), daughter of Louis XIV Philippe Charles...

Josephine, lived at 78 rue de Lille, Lucien Bonaparte, younger brother of the Emperor, at 14 rue Saint-Dominique, and Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout at 57 and...

Place Royale [fr]: Created by Louis XIV, it was built in its present form with a statue of Henry IV during the reign of Louis Philippe. It includes the Pau...

Ghent with Sint-Niklaas and Antwerp to the north, and with Kortrijk and Lille to the south. In addition, Ghent also has two ringways: The R4 connects...

Boulevard Sérurier [1,822] Regard Saint-Louis 19 169 rue de Belleville [1,823] Rotonde de la Villette 19 Place de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad Boulevard...

passing by the city, and maybe some kings themselves (Henri IV, Louis XIII, Louis XIV of France) – can easily be observed from its gardens, opened to...

Orléans died, the château was stripped by King Louis XIV, and completely abandoned, to the point that King Louis XVI once considered demolishing it in 1788...

Protestant rule was dead and the ville de sûreté was no more.[citation needed] Louis XIV made Montpellier capital of Bas Languedoc, and the town started to embellish...

Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon, the legitimised daughter of Louis XIV and the Marquise de Montespan. Four successive architects – Lorenzo Giardini...

Floral Games (Académie des Jeux Floraux), still active today, by king Louis XIV. The 14th century also saw a significant increase in the influence of...

under Thomas of Savoy, shortly before a general in Spanish service. King Louis XIV was determined to make France a major sea power. In 1660, his Minister...

frontal columns on his 1928 design for the railroad's Delmar Boulevard station in St. Louis. The entablature resting on the columns has three parts: a plain...

Pierre de Montreuil. 1699 – Beginning of major redecoration of interior in Louis XIV style by Hardouin Mansart and Robert de Cotte. 1725–1727 – South rose...

it was temporarily being used as royal stables during a visit of King Louis XIV. It was not repaired for some 30 years. In 1770, a bell identical to the...

chaplain, Cardinal Richelieu. At the premature death of Louis XIII in 1643, his son Louis XIV was only an infant. France was troubled at this time by...

displays include the jars and vestiges of the original royal apothecary of Louis XIV, and three Florentine marble marquetry tables from the palace of Cardinal...

majestic Porte Saint-Denis, a triumphal arch erected to the glory of Louis XIV by the architect François Blondel. Although La Chapelle was the only town...

port in 1669. One notable Armenian-Iranian merchant gained a patent from Louis XIV (1638–1715) over Iranian silk. Armenians also became successful money-lenders...

and produced by for the major French textile manufacturers in Mulhouse, Lille and Lyon, by German and Belgian workshops. The German designer Hermann Obrist...

Pas-de-Calais department in France. It is 68 km (42 mi) west-northwest of Lille on the railway to Calais, and is located in the Artois province. The town...